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Bible Study and Rock Music: An Interview with the Band Kutless
- 2010 14 Oct
"Christ took our beating and paid the wages of our sin (Romans 6:23). He took our cuts for us … leaving us 'Kutless.'"
The rock quintet Kutless has brought this message to a massive fan base. The band sold over 180,000 copies of their debut self-titled album, and 250,000 copies of their 2003 album Sea of Faces. Kutless started out as a campus worship band at Warner Pacific College, originally called "Call Box." Today, three different singles by the band have reached the top of the Christian music charts.
The band's passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ comes out when they perform evangelism conferences and fundraisers. The band performed for 100,000 people at the Billy Graham Crusade at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, CA. They also played a show which helped raise $50,000 to assist relief efforts after hurricane Katrina.
In the midst of a packed tour and recording schedule, band members find time to regularly do something they see as of the upmost importance—study the Bible.
Two of the founding members of Kutless—Jon Micah Sumrall, the band's lead vocalist, and guitar player James Mead—sat down with Logos Bible Software's Director of Ministry Relations, Scott Lindsey, for an interview about the importance of Bible study to the band.
BSM: Why is the Bible and Bible study integral to what you do as a band?
JAMES: The Bible and Bible study is important because what we do every night is fresh for whichever community we are in. I regularly have to be reminded that we are giving and out-pouring what we feel the Lord has called us to do—sing about our relationships with Him, talk about what some of the songs mean, why they were written, and how they glorify the Lord. We have to not only be loving towards the audience, but the people who have been planning the show for months before we showed up that morning. Being studious with the Bible on the road is integral to what we do because we have to get filled back up somehow.
BSM: As a band, how do you stay on track with God?
JON MICAH: When we get off track with God it is usually corporate. We tend to slide together quite frequently. It is like a family. If you look at the typical family, if the parents are not doing well, then the kids are not doing well. Likewise, if the parents are doing well, the family as a whole often does well. It seems to be that way a lot with the band. If there are a couple of us not doing well, we are all heavily affected by that.
BSM: What is it like to study the Bible on the road?
JON MICAH: I have always been a fan of starting out my day reading the Word, but that didn't work so well for me on tour—we are up late, get up early, and are then rushed off to interviews. Before I realized it, I had gone for or five days without reading the Bible. At some point, I came to the realization that I can always stay up a little bit longer to read my Bible. No matter what, your basic needs each and every day have to be met—you have to do whatever it takes to make sure you stay in the Word.
JAMES: When we are on our tour bus, I have a rule that I cannot get out of the bunk in the morning until I have read a chapter in the Bible. Usually I make myself do that rather quickly, because I have to visit the restroom. The Bible pared with intense motivation works really well!
We try and do what we can to stay in the Word. All of us in the band have iPhones, so throughout the day when we are thinking about a verse and wonder where it is, we just look it up on an application on our iPhone.
JON MICAH: The other day someone gave me a wallet that has a little printed New Testament Bible inside. It is a cool deal because you have your wallet, with your billfold, and a little New Testament Bible just slid in there. I think it's important to have a way to get into the Word whenever, wherever, and however you can, especially when you travel.
BSM: As a band who has studied whole books of the Bible together, like Romans, what are some of the difficulties you experience when studying the Bible, and how do you deal with these difficulties?
JON MICAH: The hardest thing for us is carving out the time for everyone to sit-down together and study.
JAMES: I called most of the bands on our Creation Tour and talked to them about a study model for the road. I said to them, "I want us all to be feeding each other on tour. It does not have to be this 'blow me away' theological revelation for everyone on the tour, but every night let's bring the focus back to Jesus, the grace and simplicity of his gospel; the reason why we are at a venue to begin with." I said, "Let's take turns—10 minutes—to just talk, pray and sing a couple worship songs."
JON MICAH: Even if you do not get into real deep theological study, and it is just real simple, refocusing for 10 or 15 minutes a day to read the Bible helps. Even if you just read a chapter, let it be, and do not say anything about it, it is still the Word of God, it never goes out void. There is a purifying effect that happens from just reading it that is incredibly valuable.
JAMES: What I have noticed from our tours in the past is that when we all agree to set the mood for a tour, it opens up more times throughout the day where we get into big discussions. I have been on tour with bands where the mood was such that we talked about things like the rapture from an eschatological perspective. As you set the mood, and really as any Christian in their individual life does, the imminence of the Lord has the opportunity to make you live differently. It opens up the conversations you have with others.
JON MICAH: Bible study is so important, yet it is easily neglected. We know not to make excuses, but I think that everyone has a hard time in their lives trying to stay in the Word; I think diligence is a common human struggle. Not being in church regularly puts you in a very dangerous place. If your study of the Bible gets neglected for a while, you can find yourself in a place where you really did not expect to be. You wake up one day, or you get home, and you say to yourself, "Wow, how did I get here? What happened to my walk with Christ?" My pastor growing up said, "You are never sitting still, you are either moving forward, or moving backwards."
BSM: How much does your Bible study affect your song writing?
JAMES: When writing a song, a little bit of everything comes into play. It involves what the Lord has personally taught us through our circumstances growing up, what he has put on our heart, and what we learn sitting in church going through the Word as our pastor speaks.
BSM: Being a band that regularly speaks and sings to thousands of people, there must have been times when your cup felt like it was half empty. Can you tell us about one of these times, and what you did to get through?
JON MICAH: I had a massive shoulder injury that I got skiing at Mt. Hood. I tore almost everything possible in my shoulder. It took me about two years to get healthy again—I was in a sling and had two surgeries on my shoulder. Making music and being on tour during that time was very frustrating for me. I often said, "God why have you placed me in a situation where I can't do very well?" My Dad, who has a bad back and has had surgery on it, said to me, "The one thing that I have learned is that when I'm laid out and can't do anything, the one place I can look is up." The pain caused me to refocus. When I reflect on these difficult times in my life, I realize that God was getting my attention. I was so busy that it was the only way God could get my attention. Every once in a while it seems that God says, "I'm going to slow you down, I'm going to take you out, and here is what you are going to learn." I think it is easy for us, especially young men, to have an almost invincible mentality—"I can go do anything I want, I can accomplish anything I want." You get so focused on what you are going to do that you forget to focus on how frail you really are, how much you need a Savior. If it wasn't for all these hard difficult times where I experience pain, I wouldn't understand what it is like to have good times. You can't have the high times without the low times.
BSM: Do you try and incorporate theology, doctrine or Scripture into your music?
JON MICAH: Occasionally, but I feel like the one thing that we are supposed to do is convey God's love. I don't feel like music is the place to prove a point doctrinally or theologically. I feel like music is the place to express what God has placed on our hearts. We try and make our music lyrically encouraging, and ultimately point back to God.
With over 180 shows scheduled last year alone, and a forthcoming album, Kutless manages to stay very busy, but their love for the Bible and Bible study has never grown dim. At the heart of what they do, and who they are, is the Word of God—an encouragement to us all.
Article courtesy of Bible Study Magazine published by Logos Bible Software. Each issue of Bible Study Magazine provides tools and methods for Bible study as well as insights from people like John Piper, Beth Moore, Mark Driscoll, Kay Arthur, Randy Alcorn, John MacArthur, Barry Black, and more. More information is available at www.biblestudymagazine.com. Originally published in print: Copyright Bible Study Magazine (Jan-Feb 2009): pgs. 17-19.
**This article first published on October 14, 2010.


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David Svoboda of the Czech Republic won the Olympic gold in men's modern pentathlon after matching the Olympic record in the fencing event by winning 26 of his 36 bouts.
The Czech military officer Svoboda, 27, had topped the leaderboard after fencing, but he struggled in his swimming heat and finished 17th out of the 36 athletes, making him second overall with 2,328 points. For the second and final part, the contest moved to Greenwich Park for the horse riding, running and shooting.
That's where Svoboda, the 2010 European champion, regained the lead. After the third show jumping test, he was four points ahead of Cao Zhongrong of China as they entered the final combined shoot and run event.
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Svoboda briefly lost the lead again after Zhongrong was quicker to hit the five targets but regained the lead in the running part. The 20th-ranked Svoboda overtook Zhongrong on the final one- kilometer run scoring 5,928 points and beating Zhongrong by 24 points. Adam Marosi of Hungary won the bronze with 5,836 points.
The men's sport has been dominated by Russia, represented in London by world champion and top-ranked Aleksander Lesun and Andrei Moiseev. Lesun finished fourth and Moiseev placed seventh.
It was the first Olympics held under the sport's new format. The women's event is on Sunday.
The modern pentathlon celebrates 100 years at the 2012 London Games, but don't worry if you've never heard of it.
The sport doesn't enjoy much popularity outside Eastern Europe. Recent calls for its removal from the Olympics Games even led to a vote by the International Olympic Committe last month. The event sport survived that vote, but the London Games might be the last time the modern pentathlon is featured on the Olympic schedule.
The founder of the modern games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin invented the sport. He thought the Olympics needed an event that challenged the mind as well as the body. The ancient pentathlon, where athletes competed in running, long-jump, discus, javelin and wrestling, was his inspiration.
Modern pentathlon made its debut at Stockholm Games in 1912 challenging athletes in five very different events: fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, show jumping, 3km country run and pistol shooting. These events are meant to represent the duties of a 19th century cavalry officer.
Originally the sport was staged over four or five days, but in the 1996 games, the events were piled into one day to assure a more audience-friendly experience. That was the format for the last Olympic Games at Bejing 2008, but under pressure to revamp the sport further, in 2009 some features underwent a fundamental transformation.
First, the running and shooting sections were merged into a biathlon-style event, which now gurantees an exciting and unpredictable finale. And laser guns have replaced air pistols, in an effort to make the sport more accessible and kid friendly.
The changes pose a challenge for the athletes, who have no choice but to adapt.
Thirty-six men and 36 women who have qualified for the Games through a series of World Cup events competed in all five disciplines this year. Two athletes from each country are allowed to take part. The rules are the same for men and women.
In the women's competition, reigning champion Lena Schoneborn of Germany is the favorite to win gold.
The competition starts with fencing in the Copper Box followed by swimming in the Aquatics Centre. The athletes then leave the Olympic Park for Greenwich Park, where they will compete in a show jumping course on an unfamiliar horse. Athletes receive a score for each of these elements.
The athletes' total scores are converted into a time handicap, which determines the starting times for the combined event. The athlete with the most points from the three previous events starts first. In that event athletes complete a 3km run, including stop-offs at shooting points where they must hit five targets.
The first pentathlete to cross the finish line takes the gold medal.

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Moon S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H. is a nationally renowned expert in cancer health disparities, particularly as they affect Asian-American populations. He is UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's Associate Director for Cancer Control, leading a portfolio of research that addresses determinants of cancer risk and their mitigation in human populations. Determinants include access to care, behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, screening, etc.), socio-cultural factors, and the interactions of individuals with their environment and the health-care system.
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"I can't believe she didn't join. Our fitness center is exactly what she was looking for. What went wrong?"
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Over a period of 5 days Nicole Loos was on the go in Manhattan with the Tamron SP 24-70mm f2.8 Di VC USD. In the interview she reports on getting to the best photos spots in the metropolis.
We seem to live in a camera world with untold possibilities. Whilst photographers had mainly to be satisfied with ISO 400 sensitivities when films were analogue, extreme settings of ISO 12,800 or 25,600 can be chosen today on modern system cameras.
No need for a really good photo to be always exactly focussed! – That may sound a little strange. However this will be less surprising after having been on the latest Tamron Workshop in the Sächsischer Schweiz National Park. For three days the 13 participants had every opportunity of looking over the shoulder of professional photographer Jürgen Müller.
Camera shake is the most common reason for blurry images. This is caused by an involuntary movement of the camera during the exposure time. The longer the exposure, the more susceptible a photo is to camera shake. However, with a few tricks, and using the VC image stabilization, the risk of camera shake can effectively be minimized.
Most of us take pictures in landscape mode. It's only natural: in the horizontal our field of vision encompasses about 180 degrees, but vertically only about 130 degrees. So we see in widescreen, so to speak. Computer monitors and televisions are designed for landscape-format representation. Cameras are designed so that we can conveniently take pictures in landscape format.


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Apple Tart with Salted Caramel
My January was packed and I am just now getting a chance to feel that urge to get organized and start the new year off on the right foot! I cleared out my entire email inbox yesterday. I'm going to repeat that! I CLEARED OUT MY ENTIRE INBOX! The last time that happened was two years ago. So now, my inbox is nearly empty (less than 15 emails sitting in there just waiting to be archived), but it seems as though I've got some photos to sort through (yikes)! In my sorting and organizing, there are a couple of dishes that were ignored and never made it into a post, so this is a Throwback Dish – as in I cooked it sometime in the last year…and am just now getting around to posting it!
Deb over at Smitten Kitchen posted this last fall while I was visiting my brother and his family in Portland, OR…it was too much to resist! (disclosure – cell phone pics – please excuse!)
Mosaic Apple Tart with Salted Caramel
Tart base
14-ounce package puff pastry, defrosted in fridge overnight
3 large or 4 medium apples (about 1 1/4 pounds)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into small bits
Salted caramel glaze
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter (or salted, but then ease up on the sea salt)
1/4 teaspoon flaky sea salt (or half as much table salt)
2 tablespoons heavy cream
Heat the oven to 400°F. Line a half sheet pan with parchment paper and roll out your puff pastry dough to about the size of your sheet pan, use flour to prevent the pasty from sticking to your counter.
Peel your apples, core them and cut them in half. Slice the apple halves thinly…a mandoline makes quick work of this…or slice thinly with a knife. Now…the puzzle begins. Starting on the outer edge, lay the apples around the border slightly overlapping each other, spiraling inward until you reach the center. We didn't fit every apple slice in after circling in, so we went around and tucked in the extra slices wherever the tart needed them. Sprinkle the apples with 2 tablespoons of butter and then dot with the butter.
Bake for 30 minutes, the edges of the tart should have started to brown a bit. The tart will look dry – don't worry…you're fixing this problem with the salted caramel!
About 10 minutes before the tart comes out of the oven, start the caramel. In a saucepan, melt 1/4 cup of sugar over medium high heat, continue cooking it until it is coppery in color.
Off the heat, add the sea salt and butter and stir until the butter melts and is incorporated. Add the heavy cream and return to the stove over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until you have a lovely, bronzed caramel syrup, just another minute, two, tops. Set aside until needed. You may need to briefly rewarm it to thin the caramel before brushing it over the tart.
After the tart has baked, transfer it to a cooling rack, but leave the oven on. Using very short, gentle strokes, and brushing in the direction that the apples fan to mess up their design as little as possible, brush the entire tart, including the exposed pastry, with the salted caramel glaze.
Return the apple tart to the oven for 5 to 10 more minutes, until the caramel glaze bubbles. You should let the tart cool completely before serving…but I won't tell! Serve it up plain or give it a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.
Very delicious right after it came out of the oven topped with the salted caramel sauce…but equally good the next day, and the day after as well. I may have had a slice whenever I walked through the kitchen. It also tasted even sweeter since I had some little hands helping me lay out all the apples thanks to my niece!


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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hype - Cookies vs. Batman
1) The New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe - and -
2) The Dark Knight
It reminded me of the period leading up to when Eyes Wide Shut was released - I saw the movie and found it anticlimactic. Remember that HYPE? Unreal. Being a Stanley Kubrick fan, however, I had to buy the DVD and watch it again - and then I found the movie brilliant. We saw The Dark Knight over the weekend - and wow - I must say, the hype is well founded. It was fantastic. Heath Ledger's acting, along with the entire cast, was truly incredible and his role will probably be a character study for years to come. It was poignant seeing Heath act, knowing what followed. Bittersweet.
As for the cookies? Well, I'll write more about them later in a specific post - but, kinda ho hum. I was expecting to be blown off of my rocker, had I a rocker. This was supposed to be the end-all, be-all chocolate chip cookie recipe. It required 2 specialty flours. It required 36 hours of the dough "resting" in the fridge. I guess I expected it to set my hair on fire or make me bark at the moon or run naked down the street with glee. None of that happened. I feel beige about these cookies. I want to paint a wall beige. Just beige. Not even nutmeg or toast, just beige. So, now - just to rub salt in my OWN WOUND, I made another batch of the same dough - using all-purpose flour, because crap if I'm going to recommend that you go out and buy 2 specialty flours if I don't think it's necessary. So, the frickin' dough is once again napping in my fridge while I'm hard at work. I'll bake this batch and let you know what I think. I'm just not feeling the hype on these babies.
It's like buying a Mercedes, but you found out it was fitted with an engine from a Yugo or a Chevette, ya know?
So: Cookies - 0 / Batman - 1
17 comments:
- The Cheap Chick said...
TWO TYPES OF FLOUR????? That sounds more OCD than the recipes on America's Test Kitchen. I think I'll stick to the recipe on the back of the Toll House wrapper.
But bless your heart for checking them out for the rest of the blogosphere!
- July 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I loved the movie too, all of it. And I too was worried because of all the hype, so I was really pleased to see that it lived up to it.
But cookies in the NYT? Yes, those should make you run down the street naked if they're in the NYT (there were 2 articles on them, weren't there, I mean come on!)!
- July 22, 2008 at 11:19 AM
- Jenn @ Juggling Life said...
I read the recipe and was thinking "you've got to be kidding." No way can all that work make that big a difference. Glad I wasn't tempted.
- July 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM
I admit, I went to the store fully intending to buy the special cake flour and bread flour for this NY Times cookie, because I adore choco chip cookies. Well, I saw the price of those flours and said forget it. Not to mention the price of those chocolates he recommended, which I snubbed from the beginning. I can't wait to hear of your comparison of with and without the special flours. You're taking one for the team here, girl.
- July 22, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Thanks just the same, but I'm sticking to the Toll House Memorized Because I've Made 30 Trillion Batches In My Life recipe. You go, New York Times. Rock on.
- July 22, 2008 at 12:37 PM
- hungryandfrozen said...
Ooh I'm excited about the Dark Knight (no idea why, since I'm a wreck with scary movies) so I'm glad to hear that it's actually good. The whole NYT cookie thing has passed me by - well, I do live in New Zealand - but really...
- July 22, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
The movie didn't open here yet... About the cookies, I've read somewhere that the recipe was changed again using just all porpose flour. I wish I could remember where was it to give you the link.
Anyway sorry if you didn't like them so much. I actually found them very good cookies, but perfect is a strong word.
- July 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Sugar Jones said...
First: Eyes Wide Shut... eeeewwww... Sorry, not a big Tom fan.
Second: I hate hype that doesn't come through.
And Third: you wanted to know if BlogHer would be anticlimactic. I have to admit, I was so excited about it all that by the time I boarded my plane, I thought... hmm... I wonder if I've made this out to be more than it's actually going to be.
Wanna know what happened?
- July 22, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- Laura said...
The dough for these is sitting in my fridge. I tend to keep those flours, but I ran out of cake flour so I used some AP too. I am glad to read your review though--I will probably enjoy them more if my enthusiasm is tempered, ya know?
- July 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM
I want to nap in your fridge. I mean, look at what's always in there.
- July 22, 2008 at 8:52 PM
- grace said...
calling it the perfect chocolate chip cookie is ridiculous. all people like their cookies differently, so it's ludicrous to think that one recipe could please everyone. absurd. i'll stick with the recipe i've tweaked until it's just right for me, thanks. :)
- July 23, 2008 at 1:43 AM
I actually was baking the NYT chocolate chip cookies Sunday morning before I went to see "The Dark Knight". The movie was GREAT!! The cookies? They're okay. I think I prefer the America's Test Kitchen recipe. I already had both types of flour (cake flour for cupcakes and bread flour for bagels.) The chocolate was a pain in the butt, I found a box of Guittard discs at World Market for $10. $10!?!? *sigh* Better to have baked and (not) loved (so much) than never to have baked at all, right? Good luck on yours...
- July 23, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- Lisa said...
TWO KINDS of specialty flour??? If you hadn't said NYT I would have thought you were just having some fun with us, but I believe you. Let us know how the AP turns out. BTW, our super secret modification to the toll house recipe involves using 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white instead of 3/4 cup of each - enjoy!! L
- July 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM
I haven't seen "The Dark Knight" yet, but I really liked "Batman Begins".
As for the cookies, I'm not a pastry chef by any means, but if what I'm baking with gets to "rest" longer than I do, then it just isn't worth it.
- July 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Big Kubrick fan. Hardly anyone gets that movie, never understood why.
I finally saw Dark Knight. Completely loved it, and you're right, it lived up to the hype.
- July 23, 2008 at 8:52 PM
- Manager Mom said...
A DOUGH needs to "rest?" I am canceling my subscription to the NY Times on the grounds that this is stupid. I need rest. The dough can fend for itself.
- July 24, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Jennifer S said...
Yeah, that's a lot of trouble for cookies. I'll check in on the next batch.
I can't beat Manager Mom's comment! Ha!
- July 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM


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Apparently, sub-£2k DarkChip3 DLP projectors are like buses: you wait a lifetime for one, then two come along at once. What's more, this new Optoma is a whole £400 cheaper than its DarkChip3 rival, the InFocus IN78. But is it as good?
First impressions bode well, as its combination of a reasonably diminutive form, glossy white exterior and silver trim all catch the eye to good effect.
Connectivity goes beyond the call of duty by providing two digital video inputs: HDMI and DVI. The DVI input also does PC duties.
Elsewhere are component video inputs plus, of course, S-video and composite video options for anyone desperate enough to use them.
The HD73's DarkChip3 chipset helps it produce a claimed contrast ratio of 6000:1, which on paper far betters what the IN78 is able to do. Unusually, the HD73 uses a 16:10-ratio 1280 x 768 chipset, as Optoma apparently argues that this combination makes it better suited to be a true movie/PC all rounder.
Elsewhere Optoma has gone to town on the image processing front by including Faroudja's standard DCDi de-interlacing chipset, and Texas Instruments' BrilliantColor and TrueVivid technologies ostensibly for making colour tones richer.
An Image AI option lets the projector select the optimum image settings for what you are watching. It's worth noting that I didn't find the HD73 as flexible during its setup as I found the rest of the projectors in this collection, partly due to a rather uninspiring 1.2x zoom.
While decent, Optoma's amazingly good value DarkChip3 offering certainly isn't as sophisticated as, say, the InFocus IN78, thanks to a sprinkling of small but niggly issues that plague it.
The first problem is that while the black level is impressively deep, I thought dark parts of the picture looked rather hollow and forced thanks to a distinct lack of greyscale subtlety.
I was also much more aware of DLP's rainbow effect here than with the InFocus, especially during scenes in King Kong with strong contrasts, such as those where Ann is being prepared for her sacrifice to the big ape.
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On paper, the Optoma HD73 walks the walk, offering a remarkable specifications for £1,600. But when viewed alongside some of its rivals, it can be found a little wanting.


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Oh Josh, You Fell for One of the Classic Blunders!
…You know. Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line. And, only slightly less well-known, never ever speak of the fans in less than complimentary terms…because it will live forever online…or something like that. But I'll get to that in a moment. First…
Hey there Major League Baseball, you great big sweetie. Don't think for one second that I didn't notice and appreciate your thoughtful Valentine, having position players start reporting on February 14th. We fans have enjoyed live video of actual baseball players on the field, in uniform, getting ready for the season all over MLBN and our favorite sports sites ever since. Hitting and pitching and live player interviews, oh my! It's the best thing ever! …well, the best thing since October at any rate. See boys and girls, even if our teams appear to have a funny way of showing it at times, baseball really does love us back. 😉
Of course, the return of players to ball fields and the happy increase in player interviews that inevitably follows does also lead to an increase in player gaffes. For truly it seems as if no Spring Training is complete without several players contracting a case of foot in mouth disease. Among the most recently afflicted is one of our newest Angels, Josh Hamilton.
"It's one of those things where Texas, especially Dallas, has always been a football town. So the good with the bad is they're (the fans) supportive, but they also got a little spoiled, at the same time, pretty quickly. You can understand like a really true, true baseball town — and there are true baseball fans in Texas — but it's not a true baseball town."
Yikes. So…um…I can't understand how Texas fans took offense at that, can you? 😉 Seriously though, this isn't pick on Josh Hamilton day for me. He's not the first player and I doubt he'll be the last to say something controversial well before Opening Day, and anyone watching the interview rather than just reading cold words on a page can see that Hamilton's intentions with these comments were not malicious. He wasn't trash talking, he was making his own honest observations in response to reporter questions.
In fact, I even agree with Hamilton…up to a point. Now hold on a second there Rangers fans before you get angry with me. In my opinion, Hamilton would be equally correct if he'd the same thing about Southern California fans, whether we're calling them Los Angeles or Orange Country. Much like Texas, we also have great baseball fans in Southern California, but I wouldn't call any of our towns baseball towns…and I do believe that by not including Anaheim or the greater OC/LA area in the list of "great baseball towns" that Hamilton gave in his attempt at a rebuttal, he was indicating as much himself.
Look, I spent the three day weekend hanging out with my sister-in-law, niece and nephew. They were taking a week's vacation from their Boston home to warm up on the West Coast. We spent a fair bit of time talking about baseball — Hey, Seth and I are getting ready for a Spring Training trip; my nephew Henry has been enjoying Little League and is very excited about a great baseball camp his Boy Scout troop attended with PawSox players that culminated in a sleepover on the field; Henry's annoyed with the Red Sox; I was trying with little success to pound out a blog post; the subject came up a lot. Anyway, just listening to my sister-in-law, Laura, and the kids talk, I was impressed once again with how much Boston is a real baseball town. Laura is a Los Angeles transplant and she is continually surprised at how much the average person in Boston knows about the Red Sox both past and current, by how many games they watch, by how frequently games and personnel moves are discussed. Compared to her experiences in Los Angeles, it's night and day.
And while I'm certainly not complaining, in all honesty I can't say the same thing about anywhere in Southern California, even if I were to somehow combine Dodgers fans and Angels fans together in my mind as if they were together rooting en masse for some sort of super Freeway Team, LOL! The Angels and the Dodgers both have great fans. Diehard fans. Fans who absolutely bleed their respective team's colors. I interact with some of these amazing fans on a regular basis on Twitter and on the blogs…but half of the reason I started blogging and turned to the internet is because, when I'm not at a game, I don't encounter many baseball fans in my daily life. Only once have I worked in a department where there were more baseball fans than not, and that was split evenly between Dodgers and Angels fans. Usually it's me, myself and I. And in that one case, our department was unusual for the company.
When Seth worked a few miles from the Big A, he worked with a couple of diehard Angels fans (one of whom sweetly gave us season tickets on a regular basis) but their department was unusual for the building and whenever the company's stadium seats were offered, it was the same handful of people asking for them every time. During the season, unlike what I hear about Boston, you can't just walk into any bar in either county and expect the baseball game to be on. Some bars yes, and I make it a point to find and frequent those bars, but not every bar. It is common to have to "fight" basketball and football fans for the TV at points where the seasons overlap and, in my experience, it's common for basketball and/or football to win out based on majority opinion. In fact, if anything, I would say that L.A. at least is a basketball town. Lakers. Blah.
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that the same is true for the environs surrounding Arlington, expect in their case it's football, not basketball that's front and center. Yet, I don't think anyone would accuse Rangers fans of lacking passion for their team – I certainly would never accuse them of such and Hamilton's comments didn't either. So there you have it, great baseball fans. Not a "real" baseball town. That said, of course Rangers fans are pissed. I would be too if the cleat were on the other foot, so to speak. In fact, I remember when John Lackey dissed Angels fans during his first Spring Training with the Red Sox. I can't remember the exact language, but he said something very similar to what Hamilton has said, that Anaheim is not as great a baseball town as Boston. And at the time I was livid. How dare he?! But I'm much more mature about the whole thing now, of course. So, John, how'd that work out for you? 😉 …okay, okay. More mature, but not yet actually mature.
Now, Lackey also accused Angels fans of not supporting him, which was not true and quite offensive. And, if you move past the 'not a true baseball town' part of the comment, the point of Hamilton's entire quote is that those real baseball fans in Texas won't boo him when he returns to play in Arlington in Angels red, only 'not true' baseball fans will boo him. Ummm…yeah. This part would also be not true — especially after this Hamilton interview! — and probably is quite offensive to his former fan base. But I digress because that isn't the aspect of his comments people are griping on.
Look, I know we fans seem like contradictory creatures and, well, some of us are. We're always complaining that we want the players to say something real during interviews instead of just spouting the usual clichés and then the minute that something real turns out to be a bit controversial, some of us whine about that…a lot. But that isn't what this is. I would far rather hear players speak their mind — even when I don't agree with them! — than the usual, 'It's a marathon, not a sprint.' 'We just have to play them one game at a time.' Blah blah. Blah blah. Blah blah. However, while players are speaking their minds I would just caution them to remember that speaking about the fans in anything less than complementary tones really is one of the classic blunders. You can't win. Really. You can't. Even when you're right. Perhaps especially when you're right. Isn't that right, Chris Perez? 😉 And just so long as players understand that going in and make their own decisions accordingly, we're all good.
So, in the meantime, how does one recover from an acute case of well publicized foot in mouth disease? I only ask (rhetorically) because, maybe, in our current situation…well…it could prove to be useful information. Well, it's very simple, one need only keep one's mouth shut against the possibility of relapses or appearances of new symptoms and wait for the next afflicted player to open his mouth and pull all of the attention his way with a few poorly considered words. And with that, we say thank you, Octavio Dotel — or, at least, so it would appear — and move on. 😉


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Thursday, April 25, 2013
A Fan Girly Post: Iron Man 3 Theater Dispute
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As every nerd on the planet knows, May 3rd is an important day here for us Iron Man fans. The third installment will be released to theaters here in the USA, or at least we hope it will.
As a New Yorker, most of our theaters are part of the Regal or AMC theater chains, with the rest being that of the indie sort. So when the recent news came that Disney and the two most popular theater companies are in a dispute, my thoughts immediately go to rage mode.
Please Disney, get your stuff together with these companies and figure out what to do. I know that everyone and their momma doubted the Marvel cinematic universe and now is floored by the success and wanting in on the cash cow. But please, let them these companies do what they want, only so I can see my favorite snarky bad boy millionaire at midnight (as per my tradition with the Marvel movies!) And especially with their being many female Marvel cinematic fans, I'm sure many know my "feels".
If indeed this deal is not agreed upon AMC, Regal and Disney will be missing on almost 800 + theaters getting absolutely no revenue from the film. This would be one of the biggest money loses of all time, especially since the movie is projected to make 100 million in it's first weekend. Disney should prepare their tissue boxes, because it John Carter made them cry, wait till they see what would happen with this and November's Thor: The Dark World's loses.
Are you wanting to see Iron Man 3? What are you thoughts on this news?
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Friday, April 5, 2013
A Letter To Some Heroes
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To put this into some perspective for some of you: I know a lot of the time on this blog I talk about things that are cute, make me have a fan girl like moment, or something that is just a small fraction of my life as a whole. But sometimes there are things that are not brought up on this blog all the time that can be considered personal. So incase you couldn't tell, this is not going to be one of those tumblr picture filled posts that involve sparkle text and little graphics on the sides, instead I wanna paint a picture of something in my life that I want the whole world to know today and I hope someone will care to read a part of it at least.
Back in the 90's, I grew up in a town and even era that was just beginning to get the grasp of what Learning Disabilities were for kids. Sure, I was never the first kid in my school district to come in with some sort of "wrong wire" in my brain, and I of course was not the worst one in the bunch, but I wasn't an easy case by any means either. I was born with a mixture of dyslexia, dsycalculia, dyspraxia, dysphasia and Auditory processing disorder, along with a sprinkle of A.D.D. To put in a simple description: My childhood wasn't easy. Basically until I was about 7 years old, I couldn't speak for the most part or even learn proper words except for an occasional few. Even past that age, the majority of my life has never been a gentle walk down the yellow brick road, but instead it was a bumpy sharp turn on every corner.
While in my public school district years, the faculty and staff had no possible idea of how to deal with my "condition". Several doctors told my parents that I was never going to amount to much, only maybe a simple vegetable of a child, speaking a strange alien language and would have to have my mother tie my shoes and dress me everyday for the rest of my life. All these conditions together meant I would have no friends, no social connections, no boyfriends, no laughs, no political discussions, no life in general outside of the bizarre twisted mind that I would live in because I wouldn't know how to communicate.
Even though I was apparently cursed into a world in which I would never know its language, I seemed to actually all ready understand a different language perfectly well: Film. I was raised on movies from the moment I first sat in front of a coach. I constantly would react to parts in a movie, characters, dialog, scenes, music, I knew what I was watching and knew what they were saying - I just didn't know how to say it myself. The Little Mermaid taught me about the ocean, Gone With The Wind taught me about the South, and preview for Silence of the Lambs made me scared. But I understood it, I knew what I was seeing in front of me and this comfortable world I saw taught me everything I needed to know, or so I thought of course.
As I went on with my days at school, I continued to have difficulty processing what was going on around me. I interacted with kids, but it was no more then a simple laugh at my expense towards my issues or my physical appearance (rocking a kid mullet and vampire like teeth was not cool in '95) and thus I felt isolated and alone much of the time, with only having toys and picture books to entertain me in a mild manor. But then I would get home, and there is where my real friends would be. There would be Ariel going on a swim, Scarlet and Rhett having a lovers spat, and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park screaming in my face. The world of movies were my real and true only friends, and they kept me company on the darkest of days. Suddenly, I met two new friends on the TV screen. One was a slim mild aged man slowly losing his hair, and another was a cuddly plump man with big glasses but yet very stone cold eyes. These two would be my favorite teachers, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.
Everyday when I would come home from school or wake up Saturday morning, I would hear the familiar 70's jingle that would give me feel this warm fuzzy feeling, that I was about to hang out with the two coolest guys in the entire world for the next hour. Gene would offer the first usual punches, where his taste had a bit more of a modern flare and he embraced a lot of the new elements within films of the 90's. Ebert however was of a more classic period, and though he appreciated modern day films, he never saw many of them as classics and much of the time was always wishing and hoping they could be better than they actually were. At the end of the day, they would teach me how to properly express my feelings through my thumbs.
But then a dark and gloomy day came in 1999, and I lost one of my friends. Gene Siskel died of complications from a surgery he was getting after battling a brain tumor. From then on my heart felt a little empty, and even though other critics would come to fill in to review with Ebert, it never felt the same. Finally, a few years later, Ebert would battle his own form of cancer (this time thyroid) and have to depart from the show and review movies only in print form. Ebert then had his jaw removed, and was given the most badass honor of all: A permanent smile on his face. Ebert would continue to review films via Twitter and through other sites, connecting with the world to other film fanatics and making himself seem like the coolest 70 year old in the world.
Roger Ebert, with his piercing eyes.
Roger and Gene, thank you. Thank you for teaching me that I can have an opinion regardless of what anyone else thinks of me or that attitude I form, that regardless of who I am as a person that I am allowed to form a thought or feeling on something and its something that should be respected even if its not what someone else agrees. Thank you for proving to me that I am an important individual in society, that I matter, along with my mind mattering. Thank you for showing me the proper and hilarious way to have an argument. Thank you for everyday giving me insight into the art I was seeing in a detailed and yet understandable format. Thank you for the time and effort you gave into film criticism and giving it some credit within the world at large. And finally, thank you for inspiring me everyday to push forward towards my goal of being you one day. If it wasn't for you guys I doubt I would feel the encouragement and inner push to reach for my goals, regardless of my past or the way my brain works, and that I can do what I want to do.
I hope that many years from now, people will recount and think about these two as legends in their own right, and respect the changes that made in the world of forming opinions at large. If they gave a kid like me the incentive to eventually graduate high school and get a college degree, then I think they could do that for many other kids as well and eventually maybe people will listen to children of all kids and respect what they think at their young age, cause really children know a lot more then we give them credit for.
So to those teachers that in the past told me that they taught me how to speak, I have to retract their comment. They might have taught me how to properly form words with my mouth and give me the tools to eventually get where I am today. But no one ever taught me as much as Mr. Ebert and Mr. Siskel, who taught me the real language that I first truly spoke and will speak until the end of my days: My love of the movies and the love of speaking my mind. And to that I once more say thank you, and thumbs up I give to you for all time.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Goo Goo Dolls Live Concert via Youtube
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I haven't really talked too much about my actual music taste here on this blog, except for a small post on things that relate to my frilly moments that involve some tunes. But now I wanna take a moment to talk about my favorite band in the whole universe: The Goo Goo Dolls. Yeah, yeah, most people don't like the Goo's, mostly because they are used to their modern sound that is a bit more tame and Lite FM specific, and sure they would be right that the Goo's have made their sound much more commercial then it was back in the day. But I would like to offer a refreshing take and knowledge to those haters that have no idea about the Goo's prior to modern day albums Let Love In or albums that came after. But what am I a fan of? Well, as did many people, I learned of the Goo's via their first big commercial success Dizzy Up The Girl, which was my first album/CD I ever purchased as a child. With the nostalgia, its an album that has stuck with me as the sound of my childhood, including songs that I continue to sing obnoxiously loud all the time.
Ever since that purchase, I have been a fan of the band more than any other. If you were to compare my love of all things Disney to anything else I treasure, The Goo Goo Dolls are probably the closest other thing I can speak of in equal amounts of fandom love. I have literally (since 2006) seen this band 8 times, and will hopefully be seeing them at least one more time this summer (though I am trying to make it to more then one show during this tour, especially since they are touring with another 90's nostalgia group: Matchbox Twenty, who I have always wanted to see live!) But I guess I can add a 9th show to my list, since last night I was lucky enough to catch a very cool event via the god like force that is Youtube. Since The Goo's are releasing a new album in June titled Magnetic, Warner Bros Music is pimping them out more then ever. Maybe its because of the commercial sound with their first single, Rebel Beat but I think they are hoping for this more happier album to be a bigger hit than prior album, Something For The Rest of Us. So in promotion of the album, a live concert was streamed from LA's famous Troubadour, and it was fantastic to say the least.
Most of the first couple of songs were big commercial hit songs from the past, including Slide and Here Is Gone. Then they drove straight in the new single, which is slowly growing on me, even though it sounds like a rip off of One Republic's B-Side catalog. Finally, the Goo's then dived into the new material and it was almost as if I time traveled back to not Dizzy Up The Girl era, but definitely of the Gutter Flower (my other favorite album) for sure! Sadly, because it was close to midnight, I don't remember much of the song names, but once the album drops I'll be sure to know these new songs by heart as they are precious and pure Johnny Rzeznik romantic goodness. There was especially one song, which Johnny added that he loved, that when listening you could tell the effort and fun he had writing it. It gave off a Tom Petty sort of vibe, which is always a good thing.
The show kept going on, with some funny remarks here and there from Johnny talking to the audience, which is always a highlight of mine when seeing them. Though nothing yet topped such classic moments as when Johnny found out what the name of the Goo Goo Dolls were in German (link here if curious) or the various marriage proposal's, it was cute to hear the audience immediate reactions to the new material and to see the smile on the band members face as a result. Of course though, as much as I love Johnny and Mike, Robby will always be my favorite member of the band, and I am always the happiest fangirl when I see that big nerdy smile on his face. Robby, co-vocalist and bassist of the band, I am convinced was once a raccoon or a flying squirrel in another life. No, he doesn't look directly like an animal, but Robby has so much spunk and energy (especially for his age and height) that I am of the thought that he must not be from this world. Detected in Badtz Maru stickers and his barefoot punk rock attitude, Robby always shines to me in his performances.
(picture from Instagram)
This was definitely apparent when Robby debuted his new (or one of his new?) special vocal songs from Magnetic. Though most of the time Robby's songs come off more like the B-side material and are never singles for the album, I really was impressed by the incredible improvement I felt in this new jam, almost to the point where I would dub sections of it as beautiful. Robby sounded incredibly confident and on point when performing the track, and I give major props to him for sounding the most like he does "on the record" he ever has, though for Robby's case thats a bit easier due to his unique raw vocals. Even though many of his songs are a hit or miss for me, this was definitely 100% a hit! Go Robby!
So the burning question, will I be going out on June 11th to buy Magnetic? Duh! The concert wasn't gonna sway me from not purchasing it, but I will say it has improved my overall thoughts of what the album was gonna be, since the first single left me feeling empty. Now hearing a crop of the new material, I feel much more excited and interested to take a good listen to the new songs and embrace them as part of the Goo Goo Dolls discography. Granted, it might not sit right next to Boy Named Goo or Superstar Car Wash comfortably on my shelf, but I see it definitely pushing Let Love In to the side for a good long time. And with that, maybe then people won't look at my confused when I say these guys are my favorite band.
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John R. McLaughlin, Trustee, to Frank E. and Barbara Wellman, 7.1 acres on State Route 784, $285,000.
Southland Homes Inc. to Susan A. and W. James Copeland Jr., 1065 SomerChase Court, Hollymead Townhouses, $203,276.
Mary V. and Matthew A. Husson IV to Jeffrey and Lisa A. Anderson, 5073 Spring Cove Court, Western Ridge, Crozet.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Patricia A. Cook, 322 Grayrock Drive, $282,076.
Jen-Shih Lee to Michael P. Rose and Deborah F. Staton, 262 Albert Court, Camellia Gardens, $109,000.
Joseph V. Buonassissi VI, Trustee, to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2.0 acres on State Route 795, $122,251.
Deborah Ballard Via et al., Executor, to James Andrew and Janet L. Ballard, 2.0 acres at 2893 Scottsville Road, $162,500.
Scott D. and Lynn L. Platter to Nichole E. Glenn, 2607 Ravenscroft Way, Forest Lakes South, $221,000.
MD Development LLC to RGMJ LLC, unit at 900 Rio East Court, $870,428.
Southland Homes Inc. to J. Todd and Wendi C. Foster,1084 Old Foxtrail Lane, Western Ridge, $220,000.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee, to Southland Homes Inc., lot in Fontana, $71,000.
Margaret E. and Jeffrey C. Brown Sr. to Jeremy D. Foxon and Serena L. Tox-Foxon, 839 Harris Road, Willoughby, $180,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Springridge, $78,000.
Terry L. Pemberton and Denise G. Coyner to Eleanore F. Walker et al., Trustees, 3397 Cesford Grange, Glenmore, $387,100.
Eleanore F. Walker et al., Trustees, to John J. and Mary Howerton, 3397 Cesford Grange, Glenmore, $460,000.
David D. Shultis to Clarence D. Roach, 910 Claudius Court, Brookwood, $149,000.
Charles B. and Shirley A. Albright to Wesley D. Sturgill, unit in Solomon Court condominiums, 2517 Hydraulic Road, $48,000.
Victor and Cheryl C. LaRosa to Christopher F. and Janice A. Reynolds, 4893 Liberty Road, Barboursville, $255,000.
David Workman Mitchell to Kenneth E. and Marguerite Kinnard, 3347 Arbor Terrace, Forest Lakes, $191,000.
Colleen B. Wickert et al., Trustees, to Kevin V. and Janet C. Emmrich, 139 Georgetown Green, $147,000.
Greater Charlottesville Habitat for Humanity to Monica Bradshaw, 2995 Simpson Lane, Porter's Village, Esmont, $87,000.
Subhas and Indrani Ghosh to Victor and Cheryl C. LaRosa, 2759 Circklewood Court, Forest Lakes South, $299,000.
Vincent J. Giuliano Jr. to Michael A. and Mary Elizabeth Chinn, 4.134 acres, $210,000.
Redlands LLC to Thomas J. and Sylvia Gasdorf, 1731 Verona Drive, Fontana, $319,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc. two lots at Springridge, $101,272.
Rivanna Fine Homes Inc. to John A. and Cheryl A. Cieslewicz,1880 Graham Court, Glenmore, $693,000.
Peter L. Baumbusch, Trustee, to Jose L. Trasancos and Stacy A. Denney, 3394 Piperfife Court, Glenmore, $425,000.
Melynda M. and Edward J. Zarzyski Jr. to Anne G. Chestnut, 1120 Pheasant Crossing, Still Meadow subdivision, $374,000.
Kenneth R. Bradley Jr. to Mary D. and Stephen C. Voorhees Jr., 26.379 acres at 9194 Old Turnpike Road, Afton, $130,000.
Bruna T. Clements to Danny D. Charles, 1.9 acres at 3746 Seminole Trail, $124,500.
Donald M. and Gregory H. Godfrey to Charles Roumeliotes and Katherine A. Kroloff, 316 Brentwood Road, Woodbrook, $220,000.
R.D. Wade Builders Inc. to Edward C. and Brandee W. Metz, 1196 Redfields Road, $247,168.
Rinehart Construction Ltd. to Kathleen W. O'Brien, 3188 Darby Road, Glenmore, $785,000.
Kahtra M. and Jack T. Kayton III to Edward C. and Marcia J. Jahn, 1907 English Oaks Circle, $305,000.
Todd J. and Theresa A. Hamm to John C. Kokola, 2025 Sweet Hollow Lane, Mountain Lodges, $153,000.
Christine P. Kemper to Michael D. and Grace A. Struiksma, 4325 Dickerson Road, $187,000.
Patricia M. Murray to Catherine M. Dillman, 1590 Poe's Lane, Hollymead, $164,500.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Patricia M. Murray, 845 Filly Run, Cory Farm, $251,470.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc. lot in Springridge, $50,636.
I&J Home Builders LLC to Peter M. and Magdaline M. Abadir, 2.963 acres at 3125 Martin Kings Road, Saddlewood Farm, $185,000.
Rose and Ninfa R. Profaci to Salvatore J. and Rose Profaci, Trustees, 3293 Sandown Park Road, Glenmore, $150,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Luz B. Moore, 731 Russet Road, Grayrock, $252,032.
Eva M. and William C. Uecker Jr. to Mohammad K. Abdrabbo and Daniela Korakli, 509 Eastbrook Drive, Woodbrook, $265,000.
Shirley E. Landes to Fonda P. and Albert Crawford, 2426 Whitney Court, Briarwood, $117,000.
Carol A. Mershon and Douglas E. Loyd to William R. and Pamela B. Smith, 215 Walnut Lane, Ashcroft, $300,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Darren D. and Kathy W. Maynard, 1054 Rolling Meadow Lane, Western Ridge, $300,679.
Southland Homes Inc. to Joseph P. and Stacey L. Lange, 1730 Verona Drive, Fontana, $304,900.
David C. Bupp to Jane W. Bupp, 2121 Shepherds Ridge Road, Dunlora, pursuant to divorce decree.
MD Development LLC to David D. and Rebecca S. Swett, unit at 900 E. Rio Court, $695,000.
Brian W. Chase to John M. and Theresa A. Guise, 533 Rookwood Place, Ednam Forest, $715,000.
Myrna A. White to Anthony W. Waterfield, 278 Albert Court, Camelia Gardens, $106,000.
George E. and Patricia C. Bruce to Robert P. and Laura L. Aurisy, 9.328 acres at the intersection of Route 231 (Gordonsville Road) and 615 (Lindsay Road), $245,000.
Shawn D. and Lynne Gale to Richard D. Olin and Betty D. Martin, 2.016 acres at 2628 Dick Woods Road, $350,000.
John E. and Susan G. Totten to Matthew and Heidi Layton, .65 acre at 1616 Crozet Avenue, $72,750.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee, to Redlands LLC, parcel in Fontana subdivision. $60,000.
Shyamal D. and Lakshmi Peddada to Robert P. and Laura L. Aurisy, 1756 Winterberry Court, Forest Lakes South, $212,000.
Lee J. and Helena M. Brady to Gregory G. and Stephanie L. Gillette, 1149 Rustic Willow Lane, Forest Lakes South, $229,950.
E. Courtney and Debra R. Hoopes to A. Preston Moore Jr. and Sherri E. Barrow, 2.976 acres at 811 Old Turner Mountain Lane, $285,000.
Mark A. and Erin L. Rapp to Henry Orgel, 11.13 acres at 4365 Taylor Creek Road, Afton, $242,000.
Ann E. Irminger to Kelly A. Laderoute, 60 Woodlake Drive, Four Seasons, $95,000.
Michael R. and Christine M. Abbott to Michelle S. and Francis J. McCarthy III, 4.04 acres at 5001 Advance Mills Road, $267,000.
Laura M. and William P. Irwin et al. to Caleb N. and Lynn W. Stowe, 600 Kearsarge Circle, $260,000.
Aubrey C. Gordon Jr. to C. Randolph Thunfors, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $112,000.
Michelle R. Frazier to Denise S. Wingfield, 5541 Jefferson Mill Road, $90,000.
Kenneth G. and Wardella D. Roebuck to Victor M. and Kathryn Modic, 110 St. Ives Road, Camelot, $127,000.
Lee Anne Bennett to Jeffrey W. and Laura J. Pugh, 4825 Mechums River Road, Highlands at Mechums River, $224,900.
Susan L. Wollman, Trustee, to William L. Whitehurst and John P. Achin, 1.494 acres at State Route 795, deed in lieu of foreclosure.
Julie Jondahl, Gabriel Klein et al. to Susan H. Shaw, 73 Mill Creek Drive, $130,000.
Katie V. and James C. Williams Sr. to Charles A. and Marsha K. Summers, 688 Lockesley Terrace, Sherwood Manor, $105,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Lee Anne Bennett, 542 Pebble Hill Court, Redfields, $185,973.
Alan R. and Donna C. Swanson to Lawrence E. and Jennifer J. Kochard, 33 Old Farm Road, Bellair, $669,000.
Sherri R. Ryder and Christopher N. Robbins to Gita R. Ajgaonkar, 2677 Proffit Road, $145,000.
Julia Morris to Jerome C. Thalwitz and Christine O'Neal, 500 Arrowhead Drive, Earlysville, $275,000.
Gregory W. Weisiger and Beverly P. Gordon, 42.236 acres at Routes 20 and 640, $395,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Robert L. and Kristy A. Keller, 1178 Redfields Road, $249,950.
Rolf E. and Edith R. Henn to Wendell W. Gibson Inc., parcel in Fairgrove subdivision, $89,900.
Sheila G. McCormick to Michael P. and Nancy Burton-Prateley, 3190 Prestwick Place, Glenmore, $615,000.
Deborah J. Lothman to Lawrence G. and Jane Ann Griffis, 825 Caitlin Drive, White Oaks subdivision, $392,000.
Deborah J. Lothman to Lawrence G. and Jane Ann Griffis, lot in White Oaks subdivision, $80,000.
Roger C. and Nancy C. Smith to Dennis and Edwina L. St. Rose, 2191 Crestview Lane, $201,500.
Dorothy A. Bunyan and Peggy Doherty to Madeline M. Horton and Peter F. Burns, Trustees, 2276 Oak Ridge Court, Forest Lakes South, $255,000.
Hera A. Niemeyer to Dennis K. and Catherine J. Womack, unit in Clifden Greene condominiums, RiverRun, $136,125.
Happy Valley LLC to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Walnut Hills, $110,250.
Edward G. Chekan to Barbara Ehrenreich, 1266 Chatham Ridge Road, RiverRun, $190,000.
Barclay Development Corp. to Legend Development Co., 18 lots in Wayland's Grant, $612,000.
Ann M. Angle to Geoffrey S. and Anne M. Barkley, 3784 Ivywood Lane, Peacock Hill, $45,000.
James B. Spence III, Trustee, to Laurel E. Johnson, 826 Filly Run, Cory Farms, $241,000.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to Sean M. Castorina, 3400 Turnberry Circle, Springridge, $419,995.
Mildred Adcock-Houchens to Drew Boles, 2.0 acres at 7051 Porter's Road, Esmont , $67,000.
Suzanne C. Kramer to John D. and Glenn W. Hague, 316 Lake Forest Lane, Four Seasons, $174,000.
Eugene M. Nuckols to Daniel S. and Hera A. Niemeyer, 695 Victorian Court, Village Square, $235,000.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to John N. and Stephanie M. Hall, 3196 Turnberry Circle, Forest Lakes, $397,950.
Dana Wassenaar to William B. and Lorene B. Downer, 626 Key West Drive, $225,000.
Kenneth M. and Michelle R. Beasley to William Graves and Tonya Whyte, 1466 Saddlewood Drive, Saddlewood Farm, $183,000.
Mary Jane and David G. Rasher to Mark H. and Jane O. Brickenhoff, 1771 Deer Valley Court, Milton Hills, $305,000.
Alan C. and Kaye P. Rasmussen to David D. Stone, 1465 Earlysville Forest Drive, $231,000.
Redfields Development Corp. to R.D. Wade Builder Inc., parcel in Redfields, $59,500.
Redfields Development Corp to Craig Enterprises Inc., parcel in Redfields, $33,000.
R.D. Wade to Gary F. and Dorothy E. Martin, 2266 Ferndown Lane, Glenmore, $623,000.
Tiffany R. Shifflett to Stephanie L. Brannon, 3258 Gateway Circle, Forest Lakes, $172,900.
Elsie B. Graves to Grant Gamble, 5.0 acres at Miller's College Lane, $96,500.
James T. and Donna F. Bingler to Donna F. Bingler, 4.542 acres at 2056 Thomas Jefferson Parkway, pursuant to property settlement agreement.
Southland Homes Inc. to Amy E. McDonnell, 1111 SomerChase Court, Hollymead Townhouses, $174,600.
John J. and Mary L. Mannion to William T. and Cathleen C. Burgess, 1466 Perth Court, Glenmore, $470,000.
Carol A. and Douglas M. Farnham Jr., Trustees, to Hunt Country Properties LLC, 1330 River Chase Lane, Dunlora, $305,000.
Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Robert L. and Jennifer G. Abrams, 6.58 acres on Route 250, Ivy Road, $44,330.
Ja-Zan LLC to Raymond L. Clarke, unit in Turtle Hill condominiums, $90,500.
Wilbur G. and Sara Jane Hughes to Wei Peng and Li Ma, 1574 Broadcrossing Road, Hollymead, $220,600.
E.L. and Sarah Patterson to Karen R. and Edwin L. Patterson III, 3876 Blenham Road, Blenwood subdivision, $6,170.
Robert Hauser Homes inc. to John P. Ward and Jack L. Griffin, 1166 Rustic Willow Lane, Forest Lakes, $221,500.
William J. and Donna L. Brandl to David R. and Irene S. Jefferson, 2615 Cardinal Ridge Road, Whippoorwill Hollow, $299,000.
William E. and Lori W. Hopkinson to Deborah F. Booth, 4596 Heather Court, Briarwood, $105,000.
Mary N. Caravella to Hugh A. Ragsdale, 1293 Clifden Greene, RiverRun, $164,900.
Gwendolyn H. Smith et al. to Deborah S. and Henry W. Smith II, 5.399 acres at 929 Haden Lane, Crozet, $50,000.
Earl H. Burton, Trustee, to James B. Spence III, two lots at Deerwood, $110,000.
David H. Pettit and Hunter Craig, Trustees, to RJR LLC, 15.68 acres on State Route 240, $800,000.
Lorenzo P. Barrett et al., to Sergio Gonzalez et al.,Trustees of the Canaan Church Soul Saving Station, 6.90 acres on the west side of Hacktown Road, State Route 744, Keswick. $50,000.
Roger H.B. Davis al., Trustees, to Stephen E. and Teresa I. Nauss, 21.002 acres at 3354 Reas Ford Lane, Earlysville, $925,000.
Denise C. Schain and William D. Spotnitz to Blair M. Kelly, 2.30 acres at 560 Bloomfield Road, $455,000.
Randall G. Welch to Sarah D. Humphrey, parcel in Gateway Village Townhouses, Forest Lakes, $168,900.
Richard P. Traub and Jacqueline R. Lindberg to Daniel Traub, 1.996 acres at 5509 Buffalo River Road, $175,000.
Marvin Freese to Jeffrey A. and Deborah D. Robbins, two parcels in Turkey Run subdivision, $70,000.
David B. and Nadine N. Hirte to Carolyn and Bartlett T. Chisholm, 1091 Autumn Hill Court, Western Ridge, $221,500.
Randolph L. Kohr II to Howard K. Trail al., Trustees, 313 Westfield Road, Wynridge subdivision, $157,800.
Michael R. and Carolyn A. Kerouac to Ronald Greathead and Jane Ethier, 6635 Highlander Way, Emerald Ridge, Crozet, $312,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Lee J. and Helena M. Brady, 1151 Rustic Willow Lane, Forest Lakes, $200,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Samuel L. Wilson, 1112 Rustic Willow Lane, Willow Bend, Forest Lakes, $219,950.
Mennonite Foundation Inc., Trustees, to Marcelle B. Morel, 49.06 acres on State Route 630, $72,000.
Patrick L. and Janice A. Burns to Robert E. and Ellen F. Beard, 1665 Hawkwood Court, Laurel Ridge, $345,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Narottam B. and Rose Manseta, 1229 Courtyard Drive, Redfields, $305,996.
Kimco LC to Jerry M. and Mary R. Rainey, 6.79 acres on State Route 620, $25,000.
Betty R. E. Rothwell to Glenn J. Parsons II, 4.869 acres on Dick Woods Road and State Route 151, $75,000.
Southland Homes Inc. to Marcia Rosenhouse, 1109 SomerChase Court, Hollymead Townhouses, $155,707.50
June E. Rhea to David M. and Valinda D. Digiacomo, 4.997 acres on State Route 648, $470,400.
David M. DiGiacomo to Craig A. and Pamela A. Bradley, 2634 Coralberry Place, Forest Lakes, $353,000.
William T. and Sarah M. Walter to Harald L. and Elizabeth G. Hurka, 2.187 acres at 2330 Hunters Way, $164,299.
Loretta V. Davis to Michael Davis, 2.32 acres at 2577 Redhill Heights, North Garden, gift.
Benjamin M. and Sandra W. P. Shumaker to Paul E. and Alice V. Barker, 1.237 acres on State Route 626, Scottsville, $100,000.
Sam Enterprises LLC to James B. Spence III, Trustee, lot in Cory Farm, $50,000.
Ronnie F. and Beulah M. Lawhorne to Pamela G. Mills, 1.75 acres on State Route 800, 70 Quarry Hill Lane, Schuyler, gift.
Woodbriar Associates Ltd. to Lorenzo D. Rivers and Tonia Duncan-Rivers, 2250 Hummingbird Lane, Briarwood, $152,050.
Neal W. and Elizabeth Clark to Jason and Jamie Lively, 2.16 acres on State Route 674, 4270 Clark Road, Crozet, gift.
Mark J. and Sharon G. Hovanic to Jean Pierre Robin, 2611 Fernleaf Road, Forest Lakes, $289,000.
Mary Arlene Blackwell to Rosie Lee and Kenny Wayne Roston, 162 Tanyard Path, Afton, gift.
Evelyn M. Hunt to James T. and Carol B. Hallett, 85.6 acres on State Route 231, 2920 Gordonsville Road, $1,250,000.
William l. Whitehurst and John P. Achin to Heidi Shaner, 1.494 acres at 7904 Blenheim Road, Scottsville, $151,000.
Walter R. and Mary E. Mills to Robert E. and Doris N. Oliphant, 2.35 acres on State Route 708, gift.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee, to HDA Corporation, four lots at Lake Reynovia, $120,000.
Bonnie Sue Elliott et al. to Avon Properties LLC, 7.41 acres at 1777 Avon Street Ext., and parcel at 1779 Avon Street Ext., $575,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to Northpoint LLC, parcel in Glenmore, $140,000.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee, to MGR Development Corp., parcel in Fontana, $61,500.
Deal of the Week
David H. Pettit and Hunter Craig, Trustees, to RJR LC, 15.68 acres on State Route 240, $800,000.